A photographer, film producer, and activist, as well as the frontman for R.E.M., Michael Stipe had been a longtime fan of performer and songwriter Patti Smith when he finally introduced himself to her in 1995, the year after she was suddenly widowed. It was also the year that Smith returned to public performance following her 16-year hiatus to focus on being a wife and mother, and she invited her new friend Stipe to accompany her band on tour as their photographer. Evocatively composed in handmade layouts of black and white photos and text, this 2011 book is a revised edition of the visual diary Stipe first published in 1998, celebrating Smith's reemergence and filled with intimate, oblique, somehow glowing images, including candid portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Tom Verlaine, Tim Robbins, and Gregory Corso.